by Carlos Rojas · Planeta · tapa blanda · ISBN 9788432000249
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«Azaña» is the historical novel by Carlos Rojas, published by Planeta in paperback (341 pages, in Spanish).
Biographical novel about Manuel Azaña, president of the Second Spanish Republic. The narrative follows his trajectory from childhood to exile and portrays him as a political figure in the context of the Spanish Civil War, with prose that combines intimate portraiture with historical documentation.
The novel was originally published in 1973, the year it received the Planeta Prize.
For those interested in twentieth-century Spanish history, in the figure of Manuel Azaña, and in biographies with a political background.
Carlos Rojas is an American sinologist and translator. He is currently Professor of Asian and Middle Eastern Studies at Duke University's Trinity College of Arts & Sciences. He is a cultural historian and his work and teachings primarily focus on Chinese culture. He also teaches the subjects of film, gender, sexuality, and feminist studies. He received a B.A. from Cornell University in 1995 and a Ph.D. from Columbia University in 2000. Before his professorship at Duke, Rojas was Assistant Professor of Modern Chinese Literature and Film at the University of Florida. Rojas lives in Durham, North Carolina.
